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Pinterest can be used as a guide for your creative ideas as you plan your lessons. By simply searching for words such as educational technology and lesson planning you can get a plethora of ideas regarding those areas.

For this site, unlike the others, it did not list pros nor cons, but it showed examples of activities that you can use for a "One Computer Classroom." While these activities are great, it would be advisable to take each activity, and shape it to fit your grade level, and also your content area.

To help teach your students about plagiarism, this lesson plan will guide teachers with activities and videos. There is a kid-friendly video about what plagiarism is. There are also many activities that you can use with your kids to give them a better idea and help them visualize what plagiarism is.

This is an interactive, online whiteboard where you can plan and draw webs and timelines and whatever you can think of. You can also insert videos, documents, photos, and lots of other things. You can put notes and post-its and, best of all, you can invite other people to be on the board with you and edit together!! As a teacher this could be very handy and posting a link to it on your classroom website will enable you to work with your students at home!

Check out our guide to growing your personal learning network with social media, full of more than 30 different tips, resources, and tools. This site offers tips, ideas, guides, as well as different tools and resources that we could use to build upon.

This is a website that elementary school teachers can go to and create a classroom website. It costs $29 for the year but the website literally becomes your own, URL and all. You can design the website anyway you would like and then you just share the URL with your students and teachers and they can access what you are learning from their home.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

Class websites can be a central hub of online activity for your class. With all the digital content and great web tools available, there's so much you can do. This will show us how we can incorporate more technology into the classroom.

Grow Your PLN on Twitter

Weebly is a powerful tool that allows you to easily create your own website. This series of online training tutorials will present you with the basics of how to sign up for a Weebly account, create your own website, publish that site, and even optimize it so that the major search engines like Bing®, Google™, and Yahoo!™ will stand the best chance of finding it. Because of Weebly's use of drag and drop elements, even novice users will be able to create impressive looking websites!

Edutopia's Betty Ray on how to get started using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

Using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

Easy to customize. Wix gives you everything you need to create a stunning free website, right at your fingertips. Wix is categorized so you can get the best website for your career.

Create a free website with Wix.com. Customize with Wix' free website builder, no coding skills needed. Choose a design, begin customizing and be online today!

This is a free website builder that you can use for your future classroom. It is a good way to keep student's up-to-date.

The ClassMarker online testing website, is a professional, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. Create online quizzes free quiz maker. You can link your quiz to another website (like D2L or Diigo) and have members of that website or group take the quiz. It also tracks the scores of the quiz for you!

The ClassMarker online testing website, is a professional, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. Create online quizzes free quiz maker

This webist gives individuals the right to donate money to a school in need of device for their school or as a teacher, you could create a donation for your school. Use this website to get more_better technology for your students and school

This site gives specific tips, resources, and tricks to integrate technology in your classroom. You can search by grade-level, subject, learning types. classroom types, and much more! Lots of good links, videos, and tutorials available, AND there's a place for you to share your tips too!

This government site has free resources for teaching digital citizenship. You can order free education booklets and other materials for your whole school. Make sure you scan these materials before giving them directly to students, especially at the elementary level. Some materials contain mature content and should be delivered directly to parents, perhaps during conferences. "The Net Cetera online toolkit offers free resources to help you teach people in your community about kids' online safety. Regardless of your experience as a speaker - or your expertise in online safety - this kit has the resources and information you need to convey key points about protecting kids online."

How to video your screen on any device.

"X-ray Goggles is a free tool that lets you remix any page that you find on the Internet. You can install X-ray Goggles in your Chrome or Firefox bookmarks bar. Then you can launch it on any webpage. When you launch X-ray Goggles you will be able to select images and text on a page and then shown the code behind your selection. X-ray Goggles will let you then alter the code to display new things on that page."